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Good article about French and Finnish startups in the latest edition of Futures magazine and some of the latest start-ups featured on Startupzone from Europe. The Irish invaded Silicon Valley last week too, as part of our work with Enterprise Ireland
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Happy Birthday BizSpark - one year old this week. And what a year it's been. We now have over 7,500 start-ups in the program in Europe and I believe well over 25,000 in the program worldwide. Wow. Who'd have thought a year ago that would be the case?
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Not long now until the buzz of Global Entrepreneurship Week becomes a reality - the countdown is on. Thousands of events happening globally. Very exciting. You can vote for the YBI Entrepreneur of the Year too, here . My vote went to the candidate in
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I may be the anti-geek but even I am excited to see Win7 RTM made available on MSDN to BizSpark member companies. Check out the latest BizSpark news on Twitter . I finally joined the 21st century and signed up to Twitter myself a few weeks ago. Fascinating.
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Last week the wonderful Diogo Vasconcelos from Cisco made me aware of the appearance of something we'd discussed while plotting over wine and carpaccio in Brussels some time ago - Fixing the Future is now live and ready to support. Perhaps that can help
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This morning we announced a new IP Ventures spinout company - InishTech - in partnership with Enterprise Ireland. The new company is being led by serial Irish entreprenerus Aidan Gallagher, John O'Sullivan and David Smyth. InishTech is a spin-off of Microsoft's
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Here I am in sunny Frisco and attempting to adapt to PST. My feet barely touched the ground in the UK after my time in Eastern Europe, before I boarded a plane bound for the West Coast. Yet again I am surviving on a few hours sleep and cramming in as
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Sometimes I describe what I do at being at the intersection of technology and politics and education. No better example of two worlds colliding than the use of Twitter during the G20 summit . There must be a real movement afoot as I cannot seem to go
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My good friend Mike Sigal from Guidewire Group will host a networking session (he calls it "Cocktails") for investors, entrepreneurs and other worthy people in London 5th Feb together with NESTA and partners. Worth going along if you are in town. Good
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November saw the launch of the eagerly awaited new program for start-ups - BizSpark is now widely available across US and Canada, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, UK, Germany, France; major markets in Asia Pacific from Indonesia and Malaysia
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At Microsoft we are supporting this year's European Venture Contest - with semi finals in Eindhoven, Prague, Copenhagen and Pamplona, along with a summit in Dusseldorf and finals in Barcelona in December. If you are a start-up seeking funding, you should
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Last week we held our European Investor Summit in Brussels attended by 170+ VC and Angel investors and top tech start-ups from over 20 countries, as well as Microsoft execs. We saw the launch of our IP Ventures company Zignals, and 45+ exhibiting companies
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It's been a while since I had time to reflect and update my blog. Where did May go? After my US trip in April, things have been a little hectic. I spent the first week of May in SA meeting Partners, Govt officials, seeing our facilities and programs and
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Entrepreneurship is alive and well in Europe. I've spent the last few days in Brussels attending the Benelux Venture Forum . There is certainly no shortage of great technology start-ups and venture capital in the region
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On 19 February at Stanford Uni, BillG announced a major move by Microsoft to give students around the world free access to a variety of Microsoft developer and design software - helping them turn their ideas into reality. Watch the interview . The program
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